Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...especially intended, were turned away, Sever might do very well. But as long as students of the university have either to stand, - if they can find room, - or to go away disappointed, Sever is signally deficient. The interests of the students and the highest value of the lectures demand that hereafter Sanders be opened...
...good command of English, can develop the instant he becomes editor of a college paper into a Stimson or a Stockton; a famous novelist has said that a short story well done, is a more difficult task than a novel, - and it is short stories our college papers demand as a rule. The Monthly has seen this defect, and on account of its appearing at intervals of a month, has been able to present its readers with uniformly good stories, albeit rather gloomy at times. Now, in our humble opinion, translations like Mr. Santayana's "May Night," and Mr. Mitchell...
...student is compelled to exercise such ingenuity in gaining an honest opportunity to use a book, the thoughtlessness which some men exhibit in their abuse of privileges is highly reprehensible. If the various departments are unable to procure more than a single copy of a book particularly in demand, the greatest care should be exercised by each student who uses it that it shall be in his possession no longer than is absolutely necessary. Many of the reference books are to be used by over a hundred students, and each individual delay will therefore result in the serious incommoding...
...wrong position. The claim was again advanced that Yale is the national college, and as such stands foremost among all the colleges in this land. Dr. Porter spoke at some length on the religious influence of Yale, and declared that everywhere the public demand is "that our young men shall have the side of faith and reverence strengthened rather than weakened. And the educated man asks that he shall be guided aright." We must argue from the words of the speaker that the course of Harvard is truly a course of progress, and as such is slowly forcing itself...
According to the New York Tribune, Harvard students demand "free religion and free sports, and no faculty interference in either, if you please...